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Check out the AFL’s alternative version of the game – McDonald’s AFL 9s. It’s a fast, free-flowing game that involves 9 players on each team playing on a smaller field. Best of all, it’s touch football with no tackling or…

Adversity and commitment are terms often thrown around at footy clubs, but the Griffith Moorooka AFC Masters know both better than most. After one of their team mates was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in 2014 the GMAFC Masters…

The Byron Bay McDonald’s AFLs 9s Invitational is back for 2015 following success of last year’s inaugural event. Nominations are now open for the two-day tournament, with teams set to battle it out for $20 000 total prize money at…

The AFL today announced McDonald’s Australia as the League’s official restaurant partner and new naming rights sponsor of the competition’s nine-a-side, social version of Australian football, AFL 9s. The four-year agreement will see McDonald’s Australia take over naming rights for…

AFL Northern Territory this week opened registrations for an AFL 9s competition encouraging wider participation in the Territories most popular sport. With 15% of all Territorians already involved in Australian Football in the Northern Territory, festivals such as the Darwin…

Resilience, determination, passion and not a hint of modesty has powered Visy Park United to a history-defining premiership in the AFL 9s staff competition. “We are immortal,” one player muttered under his breath when the gang from AFL Victoria was…

Dr Jerome Rachele from the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology has been collaborating with AFL Queensland on a research project that looks at what encourages AFL 9s participate to play. This will help us…

The Home of Football in WA played host to a strong field of new and current AFL 9s teams at the inaugural AFL 9s Tournament at Patersons Stadium on Saturday 29th November. The weather turned it on for the sold…

Two legends of AFL – Jude Bolton and Kevin Sheedy – were on hand to unveil the new $8M synthetic turf facility at Blackman’s Park in Lane Cove on Thursday. The field, to be officially opened in the coming fortnight,…

The UTS Shamrocks Australian Football Club, affectionately known as the “Shammies”, made their mark on the North Coast over the weekend at the inaugural Byron Bay AFL 9s Invitational tournament (11 & 12 October 2014), on the back of finals…